Bumble Hole
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Bumble Hole is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Dudley. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1962 and 1973, covering about 9.18 hectares. Reference EAHLD28992, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28992 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Bumble Hole |
| Address | St Peters Road, Windmill End, Netherton, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Dudley Corporation |
| Licence holder | Dudley Corporation |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1962 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1973 |
| Area | 9.18 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 395200, 288200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- St George's RoadIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Springfield LaneHouseholdInert
- Mousesweet CloseWaste types not recorded
- Gawne Lane Landfill SiteIndustrialInert
- Warwick RoadIndustrial
- Lister RoadHouseholdCommercial
What this data does — and doesn't — cover
- Licensed-era records only. Waste licensing began in 1974. Older tips — especially small pre-war ones — are incompletely recorded, so absence from this data does not mean no landfill ever existed here.
- Not the contaminated-land register. Councils hold a separate register of land determined as contaminated. A historic landfill entry is not a contamination determination, and vice versa.
- Boundaries are indicative. Digitised at 1:10,000 scale; some are buffers around a point rather than surveyed edges.
- Not a substitute for a formal environmental search. If you're buying, your conveyancer's environmental search checks this and several other sources.
EA Historic Landfill dataset, October 2025 revision. More on the methodology page.